DiffRobotics
微分智飞
DiffRobotics (微分智飞) is a Hangzhou-based startup building a general-purpose "embodied brain" for aerial robots, founded by Gao Fei, a tenured associate professor at Zhejiang University's College of Control Science and Engineering and a top-2% global scientist in 2023–2024 . The company has moved through funding at exceptional speed: it closed angel and angel+ rounds in May 2025, Pre-A and Pre-A+ rounds totaling nearly RMB 200 million by September 2025, and a Series A1 round of hundreds of millions of RMB in April 2026 led by Huakong Fund, with existing shareholders including 5Y Capital, Oriental Fortune Capital, and BV Baidu Venture Capital following on . Luminous Ventures (光速光合) is also among its backers, counting DiffRobotics alongside Unitree and Zhipu AI as a representative hard-tech bet .
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